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Re: UTC to local time, allowing for US daylight savings time.

From Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca>
Newsgroups comp.lang.php
Subject Re: UTC to local time, allowing for US daylight savings time.
Date 2022-03-15 16:46 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On Tue, 15 Mar 2022 12:39:01 -0400, bill wrote:

> On 3/14/2022 11:10 AM, Lew Pitcher wrote:
>> On Mon, 14 Mar 2022 10:20:01 -0400, bill wrote:
>> 
>>> I have a UTC time and I need to display it as local time (always
>>> US Eastern time).
>>>
>>> I could check to see if we are now in standard or daylight time
>>> and then add the appropriate number of hours, but it seems there
>>> should be an easier way with php automagically doing the proper
>>> conversion.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions?
>> 
>> One possibility (which may be overkill for you; you decide) would
>> be to change the "date.timezone" value in php.ini to name EST5EDT
>> rather than the default UTC
>>    [Date]
>>    ; Defines the default timezone used by the date functions
>>    ; http://php.net/date.timezone
>>    date.timezone = EST5EDT         ; override UTC default
>> 
>>  From there, you can use the php date functions, and they will
>> reflect EST5EDT dates and times
>> 
>> HTH
>> 
>   I wasn't clear enough:  I have a variable (from an ical string) 
> containing the appointment date/time as UTC.  In order to display 
> this I need to convert it to local  (12 hr) time.
> Thanks bill

Then, J Aho's advice is what you want. See his response upthread.

-- 
Lew Pitcher
"In Skills, We Trust"

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UTC to local time, allowing for US daylight savings time. bill <william@TechServSys.com> - 2022-03-14 10:20 -0400
  Re: UTC to local time, allowing for US daylight savings time. Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2022-03-14 15:10 +0000
    Re: UTC to local time, allowing for US daylight savings time. bill <william@TechServSys.com> - 2022-03-15 12:39 -0400
      Re: UTC to local time, allowing for US daylight savings time. Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2022-03-15 16:46 +0000
        Re: UTC to local time, allowing for US daylight savings time. bill <william@TechServSys.com> - 2022-03-16 07:06 -0400
  Re: UTC to local time, allowing for US daylight savings time. "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2022-03-14 16:18 +0100
    Re: UTC to local time, allowing for US daylight savings time. bill <william@TechServSys.com> - 2022-03-16 07:05 -0400

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